On Wednesday, US authorities announced the arrest of three key members of a large East European criminal cyber-group known as FIN7. The hackers are accused of attacking more than a hundred American companies and stealing millions of clients’ credit and debit cards.

All three hackers, Dmytro Fedorov, Fedir Khladyr and Andrii Kolpakov are citizens of Ukraine. Khladyr remains in Federal custody in Seattle after his arrest in Germany in January and later extradition to the United States. Fedorov …

Media outlets of the Central African Republic (CAR) sounded a new version of the death of three Russians who, according to the Investigations Management Center (IMC)  investigative project, went there to shoot a movie about the activities of the private military company the Wagner Group.

According to Palmares Centrafrique news outlet, insurgents from the Muslim group Seleka who control the territories around Dekoa City kidnapped journalist Orhan Dzhemal, filmmaker Alexander Rastorguyev and …

Russian media hide the fact that the journalists murdered in the Central African Republic (CAR) were shooting a joint film for Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Investigations Management Center about the activities of the private military company the Wagner Group in Africa.

After the death of journalist Orkhan Dzhemal, director Alexander Rastorguyev and cameraman Kirill Radchenko, the Investigations Management Center announced on the website of Echo of Moscow that the film crew had arrived in the CAR to …

The construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which would be used to transit Russian gas to Europe in circumvention of Ukraine, can still be stopped, Naftogaz commercial director Yuriy Vitrenko told Deutsche Welle.

According to him, the position of Denmark, whose government has not yet given authorization for the pipeline to be laid through its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone, could be a serious obstacle for Gazprom. According to the existing plan, Nord Stream 2 is …

In the prisons, penal colonies and pre-trial detention centers in the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), there are hundreds of Russians who took part in the armed conflict in the Donbas on the militia’s side, according to an article in Novaya Gazeta.

The news outlet cites various estimates of the number of Russian citizens being held in prisons. A DPR armed forces officer told Novaya that in four years, more than 480 Russians have been arrested. Some of them are even charged with …

As result of a special operation by Italian authorities, six people were arrested after an investigation revealed that they were recruiting mercenaries to participate in military operations in Donbas on the side of the pro-Russian militants. The Ukrainian embassy in Italy reported that among the arrested there are citizens of Moldova and Albania.

“On the night of August 1st, Italian law enforcement authorities exposed an organized criminal group, which recruited and financed persons to …

On July 31, Alexander Hamburg, the German lawyer for Russian businessman Andrey Kovalchuk told DW that his client was extradited from Germany to Russia before they were able to appeal the court’s decision. The Russian investigators accuse Kovalchuk, who had been living in Germany, of organizing an operation to smuggle cocaine from Argentina to Moscow.  On Monday, July 30, as soon as he arrived in Russia, Kovalchuk received his indictment.

The request of Russian law enforcement for Kovalchuk’s …

If Iran attempts to close off the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which serves as the only outlet from the Red Sea, there will be countermeasures taken by an “International Coalition,” asserted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“If Iran attempts to block the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, I am certain that it will meet the decisive resistance of an international coalition, which will include all branches of the Israeli armed forces,” Netanyahu said, during a visit to the Israeli naval base at Haifa. …